vulnerability

Amazon Linux 2023: CVE-2024-6409: Important priority package update for openssh

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:C)
Published
2024-07-08
Added
2025-02-17
Modified
2025-02-17

Description

A race condition vulnerability was discovered in how signals are handled by OpenSSH's server (sshd). If a remote attacker does not authenticate within a set time period, then sshd's SIGALRM handler is called asynchronously. However, this signal handler calls various functions that are not async-signal-safe, for example, syslog(). As a consequence of a successful attack, in the worst case scenario, an attacker may be able to perform a remote code execution (RCE) as an unprivileged user running the sshd server.

Solution(s)

amazon-linux-2023-upgrade-opensshamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-openssh-clientsamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-openssh-clients-debuginfoamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-openssh-debuginfoamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-openssh-debugsourceamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-openssh-keycatamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-openssh-keycat-debuginfoamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-openssh-serveramazon-linux-2023-upgrade-openssh-server-debuginfoamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-pam-ssh-agent-authamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-pam-ssh-agent-auth-debuginfo
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